Framing Collective Action
Program series curated by Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Olena Newkryta / The Golden Pixel Cooperative

The screening series Framing Collective Action presents artistic and documentary films created within collective structures. By linking historical and contemporary examples, the series explores the potentials of collective filmmaking through diverse aesthetic approaches. Each film program focuses on a specific spatial context (House, Street, Land) and examines the political and social impact of collective filmmaking both in front of and behind the camera, within and beyond the frame.

Framing Collective Action: Land

Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 7 pm

Human-shaped landscapes are often reflections of social desires—for solitude and quietude, but also for resources and control. The four films that make up this program explore different forms of landscape exploitation while revealing how anthropocentric environmental transformations are intrinsically entangled with social, political, and historical issues. In the last program of this series, Land, the collectively produced films develop different cinematic strategies to deal with the continuity of environmental racism, feminist labor struggles, colonial traces, and indigenous knowledge. The journey of this group of films takes us from the sugarcane fields of Jamaica to burial grounds in the US that are now used as petrochemical plantations, from stolen flora and fauna seeded in Spain to the surviving ancestral Nahuatl floating gardens in Mexico.

Program
Forensic Architecture, If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?, 2021, 35 min
Eulàlia Rovira, Adrian Schindler, La plaga, el provecho (The Plague, the Profit), 2022, 5 min
Sistren Theatre Collective, Honor Ford-Smith, Harclyde Walcott, Sweet Sugar Rage, 1985, 45 min
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Chinampas / The Floating Gardens, 2023, 5 min

Presented by Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Olena Newkryta (in English)

Enar de Dios Rodríguez is a visual artist interested in demonstrating how economic, sociopolitical, historical, and environmental aspects intersect with each other. Her current artistic research focuses on the politics of verticality, investigating both aerial and subterranean spaces.

Olena Newkryta (Ukraine) is a Vienna-based artist and curator whose research-based practice is situated between cinema and exhibition space. In her artistic work, she develops films and installations that explore the relations between forms of marginalized labor, technological infrastructures, strategies of exploitation in contemporary capitalism and gestures of resistance.

The Golden Pixel Cooperative is a Vienna-based association for moving images, arts and media, active within both exhibition and cinema contexts. It was founded from the need to act collectively in a predominantly individualistic cultural landscape.

Further dates in the series:

April 30: Framing Collective Action: House
May 14: Framing Collective Action: Street